Tag: #water
Articles tagged with #water
Might might be right, after all
What the new world order post-Venezuela means for small countries with big neighbours like Nepal
YALA
New photobook is a must-have guide for visitors to Lalitpur, and also for residents
The geopolitics of Nepal’s water and electricity
The Kulekhani Dam opened in 1982, and is still the only large reservoir project in Nepal. Photos: NT ARCHIVEA rapidly warming atmosphere is…
Women and water
Photo: SONAM CHOEKYI LAMAThe climate crisis is a water crisis – either too much of it, or too little. Droughts have dried up springs, and when…
Kathmandu's ‘flash floods’ are 4 decades in the making
Aerial photograph of Kathmandu Valley, looking west over the floodplain in 1967. Photo: EARL WEBB/DOUG HALL PEACE CORPS COLLECTIONS Kathmandu…
Nepal needs to plan for plenty and scarcity of water
Photo: KUNDA DIXITClimate change, pollution, and lack of infrastructure restrict water access in Nepal. Madhav Belbase, retired Secretary of the…
The Kosi’s sorrow, and scope
Exploring Nepal’s largest river during a destructive monsoon
Hunger for governance
Nepal has had one emergency heaped on top of another for more than a year now. The Covid-19 emergency, wildfires, and now floods.Political flux…
Kathmandu's Water Day
All photos: AMIT MACHAMASIThrough the centuries, Kathmandu Valley residents have set aside a day just before the monsoon when the groundwater…
Too little, too much, or too polluted
All photos: KARUN DEWANWhen NASA explores other planets, the test of whether there is life, is to detect the presence of water. Here on Earth,…
A Biden presidency, climate and the Himalaya
The south face of Mt Gauri Shankar (7,134m) on the border between Nepal and China is bare rock, and shows how dramatically the snowline has…
Forests replace glaciers in the Himalaya
[caption id="attachment54080" align="alignnone" width="900"] Panoramic view of Manang Village and the Gangapurna and Annapurna III Glaciers that…
In Nepal, either too much or too little water
Nepal Police rescue villagers in Kailali district parts of which were flooded following a heavy rainfall. All photos: RSSThose drawing attention…
COVID-19 revives Nepal’s WASH drive
Eco Soap Bank Nepal's Nicky Lama teaching a student about hand hygiene. Photo: ECO SOAP BANK NEPALMany Nepalis woke up on Wednesday to an…
What next for Kathmandu: bottled air?
Something is not working if officials elected to protect the public only protect those who fund them
Declaring an emergency
Photo : GOPEN RAI/NT ARCHIVEThe Sagarmatha National Sambaad held this week was a dress rehearsal for a bigger international event slated for…
In Nepal’s weather, erratic is the new normal
Photo: UN-Habitat, the Center for Integrated Urban Development, and Lalitpur Metropolitan CityThe 2019 monsoon was an erratic one. Sadly,…
The Water Emergency
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was agreed in 1992 to deal with the increasing atmospheric concentration of carbon…
Tharu Escargots
All Photos: EELUM DIXITManju Chaudhary sinks her hand into a little pond and brings up a tiny, conch-shaped shell. Inside it is an even tinier…
Environmental destruction is a medical emergency
Photo: PRAKASH SINGHLast month Kalpana BK delivered a healthy newborn baby on the way to Bayalpata Hospital in Achham, but her placenta did not…
The climate threat multiplier
Lhotse glacier, Chukung village to the far left. Photo: ALTON C BYERSMost of the recent talk within the UN Framework Convention on Climate…
Resurrecting Rani Pokhari Right
https://youtu.be/aDKMAc6MxuYKing Pratap Malla built Nhu Pukhoo, the ‘new pond’ on the northern outskirts of Kathmandu in the 17thcentury CE to…
Finding the nexus between water, food and energy
SILO-ED THINKING: The Melamchi Project is given by authors as an example of non-nexus thinking. By planning it only as a drinking water project,…
Nepal must keep water on its land
Our ancestors knew how to store monsoon runoff for year-round use, we must learn from them